Tag: Holocaust Distortion
The USC Shoah Foundation is collecting testimonies of survivors of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack to counter denial of the attack.
In this week's Antisemitism Monitor, several incidents of antisemitism and related issues are highlighted.
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Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary. Lithuanian Jews are commemorating a darker one.
Vilnius is celebrating its 700th anniversary, acknowledging its rich Jewish history as a former cultural powerhouse known as the Jerusalem of the North, with half the city being Jewish in the early 19th century.
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Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan has high praise for Canada’s Holocaust education efforts—and harsh criticism for Ukraine, Poland and Russia
Dani Dayan, chair of Yad Vashem, visited Canada to honor the outgoing chair of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem and attend the opening of a new Holocaust Museum in Toronto.
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The Wikipedia fight over Poland’s role in the Holocaust sparks death threats against an Ottawa professor
As the commemoration of Yom ha-Shoah unfolds in Poland, a debate is raging over the country's Holocaust history narrative.
A new study published in The Journal of Holocaust Research reveals that Wikipedia intentionally distorts and spreads false information about the Holocaust.
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag, and Noah Efron discuss Israel's Education Minister's decision not to award the country's top prize to a computer theorist who supported boycotting an Israeli university, the debate over whether all government functions need to be in Jerusalem if it's considered Israel's capital, and the projection that by 2050, a quarter of Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox and its significance.
In this discussion, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag, and Noah Efron cover three main topics.